Wikipedia:WikiProject Woking

Below are the aims of Wikipedia:Wikiproject Woking:

; Goals.

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of Woking.
• Improve all Woking Articles.
• Make Woking Articles and this Wikiproject a trustworthy source.

; Guidelines for articles (More Guidelines will be added over time):

• Make them neat and trustworthy.
• Make sure they are notable before you create them.
• Recognise the importance of citations and use them in all articles.

; Scope

• The project covers all articles about, related or connected to Woking.

WikiProject Woking is a wiki project focusing on Woking, Surrey. It was started by Willrocks10 and pbl1998 in a bid to improve all Woking-related articles along with improving Wikipedia's coverage of all Woking-related articles.

Woking is a large town in the United Kingdom. Woking Town Centre has a population of 62,000 with the Borough housing 92,000. Woking was included in the Domesday Book under the name Wochinges. Woking has a Tudor palace (It is actually an old hunting lodge), although it is in ruins. Woking is one of the largest towns in Surrey.

The Basingstoke Canal runs through the town, with the River Wey and the Wey Navigation running through the Borough. The Town has two shopping centres, The Peacocks and the smaller Wolsey Place.

Woking also has a Blue Square Bet Premier Team, Woking F.C., as well as a hockey club, which is one of the best in the country, and other sports teams.

Featured articles will change every so often.

If you want to help a Woking Article, this is it. Please add referenced information on this article. We will swap each article every so often.

New Did You Knows? will be added every so often.

Woking in Numbers will change every so often.

Below shows a list of project coordinators.

• User:Willrocks10

• User:Pbl1998

• User:ThePaintedOne

If you have any queries to do with Woking, Woking articles or this Wikiproject please contact us via the link on our names.

Please help with the below tasks:

{{tasks

|requests=Request Woking for a Featured Article. Nominate Woking Park and Export House for a Good Article.

|assess=

|Add=The box at the bottom to articles related to Woking's talk pages.

|cleanup=The Peacocks (Woking)

|copyedit=

|disambiguation=

|expand=Any Woking Article that can be expanded.

|infobox=

|maintain=All Woking Articles.

|merge=

|npov=

|photo=Any Woking articles that need a photo . Add galleries to Woking Articles when you can.

|split=

|stubs=

|update=Any Woking Article that needs updating

|verify=Any Woking Article that needs verifying.

|wikify=

|other=Make Wikipedia, Woking Articles and Wikipedia:WikiprojectWoking.

}}

==Notice board==

Please check this noticeboard regularly. It will contain any information that concerns Woking on Wikipedia.

• If we want to get Woking up to a Featured Article, we need to battle the Citation Needed notices. Please try to find citations for these.

If you have anything to say to all the members of the project, write it here and remember to sign it.

These are some userboxes you can add to your user page.

Add this to your user page to show your a member.

{{Wikipedia:Wikiproject_Woking/UBX}}

If you love Woking you can also add this badge:

{{Userbox | border-c = #999 | border-s = 1 | id-c = red | id-s = 14 | id-fc = black | info-c = #EEE | info-s = 8 | info-fc = black | id = Woking | info = This user loves Woking. | float = left }}

If you are interested in Woking you can add this badge:

{{Userbox | border-c = #999 | border-s = 1 | id-c = Orange | id-s = 14 | id-fc = black | info-c = #EEE | info-s = 8 | info-fc = black | id = Woking | info = This user is interested in... Woking. | float = left }}

If you help Woking Articles significantly, you may be awarded this badge:

{{Userbox | border-c = #999 | border-s = 1 | id-c = Blue | id-s = 14 | id-fc = Gold | info-c = #EEE | info-s = 7 | info-fc = Green | id = Well Done | info = This user deserves the Woking Article Appreciation Award (Gold). | float = left }}

{{Userbox | border-c = #999 | border-s = 1 | id-c = Purple | id-s = 14 | id-fc = Silver | info-c = #EEE | info-s = 7 | info-fc = Green | id = Well Done | info = This user deserves the Woking Article Appreciation Award (Silver). | float = left }}

{{Userbox | border-c = #999 | border-s = 1 | id-c = Green | id-s = 14 | id-fc = Brown | info-c = #EEE | info-s = 7 | info-fc = Green | id = Well Done | info = This user deserves the Woking Article Appreciation Award (Bronze). | float = left }}

If you have been given a gold award and you continue to show good edits on Woking articles you may be awarded with a barnstar.

This list is incomplete, please help add Woking Articles that are not yet on this list.

Woking (borough) - Information on the Borough of Woking.

Brookwood, Surrey - A local village, famous for being the largest cemetery in the British Isles and one of the largest in Western Europe. It was planned to be much bigger than it actually is.

Basingstoke Canal - A Canal that runs through Woking. Completed in 1794, closed in 1932 and restored 10th May 1991.

Byfleet - A local village.

Church of St Andrew, Goldsworth Park

Export House - Article on the tallest building in Woking. A neat page that has had a lot of work put into. Aim is to make it a good article in the next year.

Goldsworth Park - Article on Goldsworth Patk. Goldsworth used to be the biggest housing estate in Europe when it was completed.

GU postcode area - Woking is within the GU postcode area.

History of Woking

Horsell - A local village. Woking High School is situated here.

Horsell Common - Horsell's Common

HP (car)

The Lightbox - A local art gallery. Good Page.

List of mayors of Woking - A List of Mayors of Woking

London Necropolis Company

Mayford - A local village (Mentioned in the Doomsday Book, 1086)

Old Woking-The Old Woking. Henry VIII often visited Old Woking, then just 'Woking'.

Peer Productions

Pyrford - A local village

Sutton Green, Surrey - A local village

The Peacocks (Woking) - The local shopping centre. All help woth this article will be appreciated.

Westfield Common - Information on Westfield Common.

Westfield, Woking, Surrey - Page on Westfield. A village in the Borough of Woking.

Woking - The page on the town of Woking.

Woking (hundred) - Information on the Medieval hundred of Woking.

Woking railway station - Information on Woking rail station. Woking is an important station for the London commuter belt.

Woking F.C. - Page on Woking F.C.

Woking (UK Parliament constituency)

Woking Council election, 1998

Woking Council election, 1999

Woking Council election, 2000

Woking Council election, 2002

Woking Council election, 2003

Woking Council election, 2004

Woking Council election, 2006

Woking Council election, 2007

Woking Council election, 2008

Woking Council election, 2010

Woking local elections-Brief history and information on the Woking Local Elections.

Woking Park-A detailed page on Woking Park. Try to make it a good article over the next year.

It would be very useful if you put this userbox on all Woking articles talk pages.

{{Userbox | border-c = #999 | border-s = 1 | id-c = red | id-s = 14 | id-fc = black | info-c = #EEE | info-s = 8 | info-fc = black | id = Woking | info = This page is an interest of Wikiproject Woking. | float = right }}

We currently have 4 members in our project. If you want to become a new member please write your Wiki name and introduce yourself below:

1. {{User|Willrocks10}} (Creator of project lives in and interested in Woking and loves to edit. Coordinator)
2. {{User|pbl1998}} (Co-Creator of project, lives in and interested in Woking! Coordinator)
3. {{User|Arriva436}} ( Good Editor)
4. {{User|Adam mugliston}} (Asked to join, will try to contribute to transport-related parts Good Editor)

1. {{User|ThePaintedOne}} (Too helpful for his own good, lives in Woking and edits wikipedia when real life allows. Coordinator)

Below are some pictures of Woking:

File:Woking tripod.JPG|Sculpture of a Wellsian Martian Tripod

File:Wokingskyline.JPG|New Central (right) and Centrium (left) in January 2011

File:ExportHouse2.JPG|Export House, Woking's tallest building

File:Woking Victoria Arch.JPG|Victoria Arch

File:Woking Palace, near Old Woking - geograph.org.uk - 40278.jpg|Woking Palace

File:War memorial, Horsell - geograph.org.uk - 45601.jpg|Horsell village war memorial

File:Horsell Church1.JPG|St Mary's Church, which is in Horsell

File:Horsell Common woodland - geograph.org.uk - 168427.jpg|Horsell Common

File:Sandpits pan.jpg|Horsell Common sand pits

File:Shah Jahan Mosque TQ0159 214.jpg|The Shah Jahan Mosque. The oldest purpose built Mosque in the British Isles and Western Europe.

File:Woking Station Forecourt - geograph.org.uk - 601379.jpg|Woking Station

File:Centrium, a new development in central Woking, near the station - geograph.org.uk - 1340223.jpg|A view of the Centrium

File:Export House Xmas Tree2.jpg|Export House Christmas Tree

File:Kingfield Stadium - geograph-1779642.jpg|Kingfield Stadium

File:Woking Town Square - geograph.org.uk - 40908.jpg|Woking Town Square before Peacocks Shopping Centre Extension was added

File:WokingStation.jpg|Woking railway station, Platform 5 (south) side

File:Woking-TownSquare.jpg|War Memorial and Church

File:Woking Borough Council - geograph.org.uk - 1186743.jpg|The Civic Offices (Woking Bourough Councils HQ)

File:Woking Fire Station - geograph.org.uk - 431077.jpg|Woking Fire Station

File:Local shops at Westfield - geograph.org.uk - 45825.jpg|Shops at Westfield

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